Miracles in My Life - J. N. Loughborough

Then, without taking pains to learn who the ladies
in worldly dress were, they returned with great
stories of the pride of the Battle Creek Church, and
how they saw them decorated with feathers and
jewelry. They also trumped up objections to the
testimonies, and set out to cause division in our
ranks in Iowa.
Of all this we knew nothing until we reached
Monroe, Wisconsin (June 9). There Elder
Ingraham showed Elder White a letter he received
from Snook which said, "Brother Ingraham, what
do you think of striking out on the old plan of the
independence of the churches? ..." In this Elder
White at once spotted rebellion, and throwing off
conference organization. When we reached Pilot
Grove, where a spring session of the Iowa
Conference was to be held, we learned that Snook
and Brinkerhoff were teaching that the message
would go forward as soon as it was rid of Sister
White's testimonies.
When we met in conference with our people at
Pilot Grove, Elder White proposed that, before
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